Asian aro, Food?

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Heppy

Jack Dempsey
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ive had my asian aro now for about 8 months and it will only eat live food it gets a mixture of crickets, mealworms, earthworms(nightcrawlers) and the occasional cockroach and goldfish. ive tried giving it just about everything else but it won't take them. has anyone managed to get their aro eating dead foods if so what? and what did you do? also what would be the best diet for an asian aro?

cheers
 
Heppy said:
ive had my asian aro now for about 8 months and it will only eat live food it gets a mixture of crickets, mealworms, earthworms(nightcrawlers) and the occasional cockroach and goldfish. ive tried giving it just about everything else but it won't take them. has anyone managed to get their aro eating dead foods if so what? and what did you do? also what would be the best diet for an asian aro?

cheers
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Its easy... mine ate shrimp, pellets, fd krill. . . anything that had taste =)
The trick is to start em when young and to use the starvation method. Make them healthy and fat then starve them for a few days.

A healthy fish wont starve itself to death. I will take on new foods when hungry enough.
 
arofanatics said:
i stop feed live..
I total change to food pellet...
It's really take time to train them taking.
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The Japanese pellets are quite good. So far my fish's diet consist 25% of pellets. The others are superworms and market prawns
 
As for me, my aro is eating all kinds of food from live food to frozen market prawns, lives feeder shrimps & fishes, etc......Anything that I throw into the tank, the fellow will accept!!!

How you gonna introduce the new food to your aros?? Guess one of the best method is to start feeding the baby with the food that u want her to accept....

Other than that, mayb you can try the starving method....U can know your aro's habit like, how long will the fellow give up and starts eating after being starved for days/weeks......

Another method will be adding tankmates into the tank....this method is very efficient bcos when there is competition, the aro will automatically tuned to grabbing whatever that is being throw into the tank. They knows that if they dun grab the food, once the food is being eaten they wont get have eat anything!!

hope that the above tips is helpful.... :)
 
everything i throw in it takes in its mouth then spits it out , its in with tankmates that will eat what ever i throw in. ive not ttriwed the starving method but i think il give it a go. just wondering are pinkies bad for fish? and is all seafood good for fish ?
 
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